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Re:Near Future of Programming Languages [pdf] by wolfgke on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @12:20PM (#15594376)
> Even the most ardent JS fans I work with call it objectively bad.

Counterargument: Read

Douglas Crockford - JavaScript: The Good Parts

Even though this book is somewhat "aged" (it is from 2008), I know no better book where it is presented so well what is so interesting about JavaScript and how this language is so often misunderstood.

If after reading this book you still consider JavaScript as "objectively bad", so be it. But first read the arguments that are presented in this book.

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Re:Near Future of Programming Languages [pdf] by pdimitar on Friday November 03, 2017 @04:46PM (#15622096)
It is very telling that you don't see the irony of the fact that a language needs a book titled "Language X: the good parts".

Good tech mostly speaks for itself. When you need entire books to convince you that a language has good parts, then you know the language has a problem.

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